[pve-devel] [PATCH manager] Delete "exclude" when switching a backup job to pool

[Thomas Lamprecht]

Am 8/6/19 um 2:41 PM schrieb Stefan Reiter:
> I don't see a reason to blanket-forbid excluding VMs in pool backups, so I felt leaving the API unchanged was the better option in this case. The GUI is the broken part, the API is working fine, albeit for a use-case it wasn't intentionally designed for.
> 

But then the WebGUI would need to be adapted to cope with such a case,
as currently adding excludes to a pool based backup job results in a
rather strange and wrong visualization, e.g., "All except 1074" here,
but all is not selected and editing the job shows an inconsistent wrong
state too.

> That said, I'm fine with either change.

I'd rather say we need both, or?

"Pool Based" backup jobs should stay simple, and as it does not really
works in all cases I'd rather prevent exclusions with that mode.
People needing to exclude some VMs can just use other modes..

PS: please avoid "top posting" if possible :)

> 
> On 8/6/19 2:22 PM, Tim Marx wrote:
>> Thanks for spotting this one.
>> IMHO this would be better fixed in the API, unless we really want to allow pool backups which exclude vms:
>> diff --git a/PVE/API2/Backup.pm b/PVE/API2/Backup.pm
>> index bf9a3330..6c2e16c3 100644
>> --- a/PVE/API2/Backup.pm
>> +++ b/PVE/API2/Backup.pm
>> @@ -476,6 +476,7 @@ __PACKAGE__->register_method({
>>                      } elsif ($job->{pool}) {
>>                          delete $job->{vmid};
>>                          delete $job->{all};
>> +                       delete $job->{exclude};
>>                      }
>>> Stefan Reiter <s.reiter at proxmox.com> hat am 6. August 2019 11:17 geschrieben:
>>>
>>>   Previously, if you selected a job in "exclude" mode (in DC GUI) with some VMIDs
>>> selected and then switched that backup job to "pool", the backup job would
>>> retain the "exclude" section and thus not back up all VMs.
>>>
>>> The backend technically supports this, but the GUI would then misrepresent this,
>>> showing that all VMs will be backed up (when in reality some will be excluded)
>>> or straight up break and show "exclude" mode again, with the backend still being
>>> on "pool".
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Reiter <s.reiter at proxmox.com>
>>> ---
>>>   www/manager6/dc/Backup.js | 2 ++
>>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/www/manager6/dc/Backup.js b/www/manager6/dc/Backup.js
>>> index 6810d92f..79e9cace 100644
>>> --- a/www/manager6/dc/Backup.js
>>> +++ b/www/manager6/dc/Backup.js
>>> @@ -251,6 +251,8 @@ Ext.define('PVE.dc.BackupEdit', {
>>>               values.exclude = values.vmid;
>>>               delete values.vmid;
>>>           } else if (selMode === 'pool') {
>>> +            delete values.exclude;
>>> +            Proxmox.Utils.assemble_field_data(values, { 'delete': 'exclude' });
>>>               delete values.vmid;
>>>           }
>>>   -- 
>>> 2.20.1
>>>